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Tinashe Michael Tapera

Personal Health Informatics PhD Student | Data Scientist


I’m a PhD Student at Northeastern University, co-mentored by Varun Mishra and Stephen Intille. I study how to detect mental health states from personal devices like mobile phones and smart watches.


Education

Northeastern University

PhD Personal Health Informatics

Boston, MA

May 2027

Drexel University

Accelerated MSc. Psychology (Data Analysis Track)

Philadelphia, PA

Jun 2018

Drexel University

BSc. Psychology

Philadelphia, PA

Jun 2017

Professional Experience

Senior Neuroimaging Data Analyst

Penn Lifespan Informatics & Neuroimaging Center

Philadelphia, PA

Aug 2022 - Oct 2018

  • Developed data pipelines for ETL and analysis of large-scale neuroimaging data sets between data warehouses in Python, R, and Bash
  • Preprocessed and analysed neuroimaging data using cutting-edge software (fMRIPrep, XCPEngine, QSIPrep, ASLPrep)
  • Maintained and supported multiple data curation software packages in Python and R

Data Science Intern

Salesforce

San Francisco, CA

Oct 2017 - May 2017

  • Focused on discovery of organizational insight using internal human resources data sets
  • Developed a semi-supervised learning algorithm to track employee performance by matching topic models of continuous feedback and goal-setting data
  • Investigated comorbidity of employees’ insurance claims data to dynamically classify claim types and employee phenotypes

Selected Publications

Flywheeltools: data curation and manipulation on the flywheel platform

Frontiers in neuroinformatics

2021

First Author

ModelArray: An R package for statistical analysis of fixel-wise data

Neuroimage

2023

Middle Author

Curation of BIDS (CuBIDS): A workflow and software package for streamlining reproducible curation of large BIDS datasets

NeuroImage

2022